Motive·Software Engineer

Motive Software Engineer interview experience

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NoidaPosted May 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

For the software engineer internship, the whole process was basically a single technical round.

It started with a quick introduction, then the interviewer dove into a DSA-style problem where I had to implement a basic version of Minesweeper.

I was given a 2D grid with cells marked as mines and had to produce a board where every non-mine cell showed the count of adjacent mines. The interviewer was polite and let me ask clarifying questions, and they encouraged me to think out loud and explain my approach as I went. I initially missed an edge case, but after we discussed it and I corrected course, I arrived at a working solution.

I left feeling like it was a fair test of algorithmic

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